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The 2013 Washington, Illinois tornado was an unusually powerful and violent tornado that caused catastrophic damage to the city of Washington and several farmsteads in rural central Illinois during the early afternoon of November 17, 2013. The tornado resulted in three fatalities and injured 125 people. This tornado was one of the two violent ...
Throughout the evening hours of April 9, 2015, an extremely violent and long-lived multiple-vortex tornadotore through the communities near Rochelleand in Fairdale, Illinois. Part of a larger severe weather event that impacted the Central United States, the tornado first touched down in Lee Countyat 6:39 p.m. CDT (23:39 UTC).
This tornado is the most recent F5 or EF5 tornado to hit Central Illinois. An F2 tornado killed two people in Lincoln County, [26] [25] and an FU tornado was reported west of Findlay. [25] April 12, 1945 – An F2 tornado tracked through portions of Missouri before crossing the state line into Adams County, causing $3 million (1945 USD) in ...
The Chicago area is cleaning up. A dam fails after rain, wind, tornadoes pound the Midwest. The Chicago area is cleaning up. MELISSA PEREZ WINDER, ED WHITE and JIM SALTER. July 16, 2024 at 4:58 PM ...
Fox 32 News. August 30, 2024 at 11:43 AM. Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued a disaster proclamation in several Illinois counties following severe storms and flooding last month. The affected areas include ...
The August 2020 Midwest derecho was a powerful derecho affecting the Midwestern United States on August 10–11, 2020, primarily eastern Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. It caused high winds and spawned an outbreak of weak tornadoes. Some areas reported torrential rain and large hail. [ 2 ][ 7 ][ 1 ]
A dust storm in central Illinois Monday morning, May 1 created "zero visibility" conditions, triggering a fiery 72-vehicle pileup on Interstate 55 that killed seven people and injured more than 35 ...
1Most severe tornado damage; see Fujita scale. The May 2009 Southern Midwest Derecho was an extreme progressive derecho and mesoscale convective vortex (MCV) event that struck southeastern Kansas, southern Missouri, and southwestern Illinois on May 8, 2009. [9][10] Thirty-nine tornadoes, including two of EF3 strength on the Enhanced Fujita ...